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Monday, April 30, 2012

Fathers' Day Cards

Happy Tuesday and welcome to Erica's Card Creating Tuesday! Today the Design Team is happy to show you some Fathers day cards so you have no excuse not to get a jump start on making some of these for dear old dad. I am going to show you 2 different cards that I have created, so here we go......

My first card actually was designed around this card stock with the rich brown grasses from the DCWV "Safari Chic" stack. I just love the papers in this pad and this one just begged to be used for a Fathers' Day card. I cut this great frame from Wild Card on page 66 @ 6.5". Don't you just love these cattails?
I cut the frame from core'dinations Distress collection and inked the edges with walnut stain and tea dye inks from Ranger.I love to add texture to my dies so this time I used brown fun flock on the cattails. This is a great product and adds dimension especially a realistic look to this cut. I decided to add some Tarnished Brass crackle paint to the frame edges to add a little definition from the background paper.
By the way, if you would like to purchase some of the products like the ones I have used here, you should check out Ericas' Store. She has all the latest products AND, this month she is giving a 33% discount in her store for everything but Provocraft. All you have to do is add the code 33 at checkout. How sweet of her is this!!! Just another reason why you should shop early and get those cards made, lol.

I added some gold Atou spica markers to the stem of the cattails. (You didn't think I could make a card without a little bling did you?). The greeting is a rub on.

I also added a rub on sentiment to the inside of the card. I couldn't bear to throw out this scrap of card stock with the touch of grass peeking out so I added that to the inside as well.

I had bought a pack of Kraft pre made cards and envelopes so these came in so handy for both Fathers' Day cards. I found this tie and collar cut from of all places, Designer Calendar! You can find this on page 44 Events>shift and cut it @ 2.5". This cut is great but now I needed a shirt! I really loved this one that I found on Paper Doll Dress Up on page 32. You will find it on the top row 3rd from the left>shift. In order to get the right size, I made a test cut using computer paper first. I had to cut the shirt @ 8" in order for it to fit the shirt.

I wanted the tie to stand out a little from the collar so I inked it with Antique Linen ink. The shirt was from another card stock in the Safari Chic pack. I had gotten a surprise from Erica in one of my orders (she loves to do that to all of us, lol). She had sent me some adhesive foam strips by Darice and they came in very useful to pop my tie and collar up.
I used some Imaginisce silver brad tops for the buttons and a brad for the top "button". The square tags on the sentiment was cut from the Imagine More cart in 1.75" and also 2". I just popped them in my Xyron 2.5 create a sticker and now the tags were done. Once again I used a rub-on for the sentiment and the faux stitching. The cream card stock mat was embossed with a herringbone pattern and my cuttlebug. Does that brown strip look familiar? It should, it is the last piece from the cattail background paper from the other card.
I hope you all have a wonderful week. Now that your Mothers' day cards are done start those Fathers' Day cards NOW. Be sure to pop back over to Ericas Room and see what the rest of the designers have to share with you today.They are so talented and their projects are always fabulous!

Saturday, March 3, 2012

A Super Hero, An Army And A Cupcake!

Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room's

100 Cricut Cartridge Blog Hop

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Welcome to My Cricut Craft Room March Blog Hop. If you came from: http://ericasprojects.blogspot.com/ then you are in the right place. If you just happened upon my blog you will want to start at : http://www.mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/ and join in on all the creativity!
Each month Erica's Design Team shows you features and projects using 100 different carts. Each member is required to use 3 different carts either as separate projects or all three carts on the same project. I am going to show you 3 individual projects using: Batman, Toy Story and Slumber Party (gotta throw something in there for the girls!)
First up Batman!

I love how easy this was to make. I chose the container on page 71 fit to page and used DCWV brights cardstock. I cut the "Party" @ 4". I used both the shadow in blue, and the regular letters in gold card stock.

The character was cut @ 3.5 and I used a shimmery card stock from Recollections. I decided to use a white pen to add the eyes and mouth because these pieces were way too small to fool with. The other pieces I just popped into the Xyron 250 and used a pair of tweezers to put the pieces where I wanted them to go.

After adding some distress ink to the "flash" behind Batman, this box is good to go!

Next up the army guys from Toy Story.

I love this image and the sentiment might be appropriate for a serviceman's family that is relocating or someone who got a promotion. I'm still trying to figure out who I would send this to, can you think of one?
You can find this Icon on page 65 and all layers are cut @ 3.5". I must confess, I lost 2 of the dots on the ! points and really did not want to cut another image for 2 dots and I could have done them in CCR or used my Gyspy and the Hide Contour feature, but....I just pulled out my cropadile and punched out 2 small circles. That problem solved! One of the greatest little tools is the Quickie Glue pen by Sakura. It has just the right size tip for those hard to glue pieces. Everything else went through my Xyron. I love that I have all different sizes of these machines. These are my go to tools for gluing, lol.
What do think about the background metal paper? I used a silver card stock, ran it through the cuttlebug with an embossing folder. Then used Ranger Sanding Grip to rough it up a bit before adding some inks.. I used so many alcohol inks I can't even begin to tell you, lol. I think it took around 7 colors including Rust, Meadow, Black Soot , Caramel just to name a few. If you have the Imagine and the cartridge Textures you can achieve a similar effect with one of the papers that is included in this cart. I just love working with the alcohol inks even if it is more work!
Last but not least, I used Slumber Party to create this fun cupcake card.

I cut the card this using the card option and flooded the colors on the Imagine using the Berries and Cream cart. I love to then add my personal touch with the use of Diamond Glaze and Pixie Dust by Donna Salassar and some stickles for the Jimmies. I ran the cupcake wrapper through the "Branches" cuttlebug folder and
inked the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink. I also added some Smooch Spritz in white to the cupcake icing.
The best part was adding some dimension to the frosting edge with a Snow Marker by Marvy. Erica included some as a little something extra with my last order and I just had to try it out, lol. This is the coolest stuff! You "write" it on the area, let it dry and then heat it with a heat tool to get it to puff up. This is just so neat, lol. You can purchase it in Ericas Shop :http://www.shop.ericascraftroom.com/

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I hope you have enjoyed my projects. Next up , you'll want to see what Claire has created to inspire you over @ http://www.ThreeWatersCreations.com . If you get lost you can always start back @ http://www.mycricutcraftroom.blogspot.com/

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3. marji http://fstampaholic.blogspot.com

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6. Dana http://danascraftycorner.blogspot.com

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8. Tonya http://ittybittyladybugs.blogspot.com

9. Tamara http://sospoileditscute.blogspot.com

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11. Jess K http://myimagitivity.blogspot.com